Background Info
Tactics
Conflict at Home
Leaders
End of the War
100
Fear that if one Southeast Asian nation fell to communism, others would also fall.
What is the Domino Theory?
100
Explosives that threw pieces of their thick metal casings in all directions
What is a fragmentation bomb?
100
Terms used to describe senators for and against the war.
What are Hawks and Doves?
100
Leader of North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Mihn?
100
Policy of removing US troops and replacing them with South Vietnamese soldiers.
What is Vietnamization?
200
This European country held Vietnam as part of their imperial power until 1954.
What is France?
200
A surprise attack of the North Vietnamese on key Southern cities during Lunar New Year.
What is the Tet Offensive?
200
These people refused to fight in the war on moral or religious grounds.
What are conscientious objectors?
200
Presidential candidate who had a secret plan of ending the war.
Who is Richard Nixon?
200
The peace talks for ending the war occurred in this city.
What is Paris?
300
South Vietnam communist guerillas
What is the Viet Cong?
300
The dropping of thousands of tons of explosives over large areas.
What is saturation bombing?
300
Young political party that believed that problems such as poverty and racism called for radical changes.
What is the New Left?
300
Kennedy's Secretary of Defense who laid the ground work for American being prepared to enter the war.
Who is Robert McNamara?
300
Due to the result of the Vietnam War, communism spread into these two nations as well.
What are Laos and Cambodia?
400
In 1954, the US and 7 other nations formed this organization to stop the spread of communism.
What is SEATO?
400
Herbicide that has left a last affect on the people, animals, and terrain of Vietnam
What is Agent Orange?
400
Violence between students and National guardsmen at this university brought more attention to the anti-war cause.
What is Kent State University?
400
He increased the military advisers to Vietnam to around 16,000.
Who is John Kennedy?
400
Term for large group of Americans whose voices were not heard over the loud minority.
What is the silent majority?
500
Johnson gained super-presidential powers with the passing of this resolution.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
500
Onslaught against villagers by US troops, frustrated by the circumstances of the war in Vietnam.
What is the Massacre at My Lai?
500
Due to his growing unpopularity, he decided not to run for President in 1968.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
500
He led non-communist South Vietnam until he was assassinated.
What is Ngo Din Diem?
500
Classified government study of American involvement during the war, causing the American people to mistrust the government.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
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